As small-business owners focus more on keeping their digital information out of harm’s way, many can neglect to provide the same level of security for their physical assets — including company-owned cell phones, laptops, tablets and digital cameras.
Here is the link to the article on Entrepreneur’s website. If you have any further questions, let us know.
Craig
So if I use the this title, am I helping or doing more harm? Hmmmm… There is so much to keep up with when it comes to driving traffic to your website. And most of us just don’t have the time to do it regularly or the skills to do it right if we actually work on the site. I don’t have any advice right now, but I’ll get back to you once I figure it all out.
Here is the link to the story on Fast Company’s website: http://bit.ly/rdbvWn
-Craig
Six million Web pages have been booby-trapped with malware, using security vulnerabilities in software that hundreds of thousands of e-commerce Web sites use to process credit and debit card transactions.
via Is That a Virus in Your Shopping Cart? — Krebs on Security.
You have to keep your software up to date. Not just the operating system, but all of the other applications that help you get stuff done. I found a free utility from FileHippo.com that can help keep all of your Windows software current. http://bit.ly/nVL4Va You should get in the habit of running this at least once a month.
-Craig
Cisco has issued a warning about information packet and warranty CDs shipped to its own customers between December 2010 and August 2011, saying that they contain a reference to a third-party website known to be a malware repository.
Once the CD is opened with a web browser, or if the OS configured to automatically open the inserted media, the user is automatically taken to the site in question.
Luckily, this third-party site is currently inactive as a malware repository, but that doesn’t mean that it won’t be start serving malware in the future.
In order to prevent future trouble, Cisco advises users to discard the affected CDs and to visit the Cisco worldwide website if they need to access the latest content of each CD or to download ISO images of a CD in order to create one.
To see which CDs are affected and to get the URLs to the wanted contend, go here.
If this can happen to Cisco, no one is safe…
-Craig
What is Spotify? Only the best music application ever created… it helps you discover and share music, you can create playlists and play them on your computer, phone, stereo and more. Over 13 million songs to listen to, even I can find something I like.
Email me and I’ll send you an invite. Good while I got them folks!
-Craig (craig @ cernetworks.com)
http://www.spotify.com/us/hello-america/
Story from Gizmodo:
Sam Biddle — Fresh off their face-kicking of the CIA’s website, LulzSec just decided to go with something a little less political: a 60k+ set of login info for… they won’t say. But they’re encouraging everyone to try ‘em out across the web.
So far, eager downloaders have been retweeting claimed prizes of pilfered WoW, PayPal, porn, and Gmail accounts. Lulz hasn’t said where they got the data, or what it’s good for—instead, they’re just encouraging their retinue to “Be creative instead of being a potato. Try PayPal combinations, twitter, Facebook, eBay, Runescape. Pick a target from the list.”
It’s an exciting day for the group and their fans. Unless your PayPal account just got jacked, in which case you are probably feeling lulz-deficient at the moment. I think it may be safe to say that LulzSec has officially supplanted Anon as the preeminent internet force of thunderous chaos for the time being. [LulzSec]
Update: Hacker News quotes Mikko Hypponen of security firm F-Secure, who bets the leak’s origin is the user database of writerspace.com, an obscure, 90s-looking “Website for Writers.” Why? Many of the passwords reference books, reading, or “writerspace” itself.
To see if your passwords were leaked, go here: Gizmodo
-Craig
We’re in the process of updating the blog mechanics. It’s a tad boring now, but it’ll be done soon.
-Craig
Every now and again, Stacy or Tristin will tell a client that I’ve been spotted around town wearing my hair down, in a dress, maybe even wearing makeup. These wild tales are always met with the sort of skepticism one would expect from our clients, whose keen wit and boundless intellect are matched only by their good looks.
However, we now have photographic evidence that they were right, and I do own makeup, a dress, and even some high heels.
January 22 2011
